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- Season 1 The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards
- Season 1 When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America
- Season 1 The Natives and the English
- Season 1 The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies
- Season 1 The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening
- Season 1 Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution
- Season 1 Who Won the American Revolution?
- Season 1 The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism
- Season 1 Where US Politics Came From
- Season 1 Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy
- Season 1 The War of 1812
- Season 1 The Market Revolution
- Season 1 Slavery
- Season 1 Age of Jackson
- Season 1 19th Century Reforms
- Season 1 Women in the 19th Century
- Season 1 War & Expansion
- Season 1 The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion
- Season 1 Battles of the Civil War
- Season 1 The Civil War, Part I
- Season 1 The Civil War Part 2
- Season 1 Reconstruction and 1876
- Season 1 The Industrial Economy
- Season 1 Westward Expansion
- Season 1 Growth, Cities, and Immigration
- Season 1 Gilded Age Politics
- Season 1 The Progressive Era
- Season 1 American Imperialism
- Season 1 Progressive Presidents
- Season 1 America in World War I
- Season 1 Women's Suffrage
- Season 1 The Roaring 20's
- Season 1 The Great Depression
- Season 1 The New Deal
- Season 1 World War II Part 1
- Season 1 World War II Part 2
- Season 1 The Cold War
- Season 1 The Cold War in Asia
- Season 1 Civil Rights and the 1950s
- Season 1 The 1960s in America
- Season 1 The Rise of Conservatism
- Season 1 Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise
- Season 1 The Reagan Revolution
- Season 1 George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War
- Season 1 The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
- Season 1 Terrorism, War, and Bush 43
- Season 1 Obamanation
Crash Course US History - Season 1 Episode 17 War & Expansion
6.00 14 minutes In which John Green teaches you about the Mexican-American War in the late 1840s and the expansion of the United States into the western end of North America. In this episode of Crash Course, US territory finally reaches from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean. After Oregon was secured from the UK and the southwest was ceded by Mexico, that is. Famous Americans abound in this episode, including James K Polk (Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump), Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, and Winfield Scott. You'll also learn about the California Gold Rush of 1848, and California's admission as a state, which necessitated the Compromise of 1850. Once more slavery is a crucial issue. Something is going to have to be done about slavery, I think. Maybe it will come to a head next week.
